https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-copy-files-recursive-from-HDFS-to-a-local-folder/m-p/234909#M196729 <DIV><DIV><P>The simple way to copy a folder from HDFS to a local folder is like this:</P><PRE><CODE>su hdfs -c 'hadoop fs -copyToLocal /hdp /tmp'</CODE></PRE><P>In the example above, we copy the <CODE>hdp</CODE> folder from HDFS to <CODE>/tmp/local_folder</CODE></P><P>But we have a more complicated case. Let’s say under <CODE>/hdp ( hdfs )</CODE>, we have subfolders:</P><P><BR /></P><DIV><DIV><PRE><CODE>/hdp/folder1 /hdp/folder2 /hdp/folder3/folder_a . . .</CODE></PRE><P><BR /></P><DIV><DIV><P>And in each sub folder we have files.</P><P>In that case, how to copy recursively only the files under <CODE>/hdp</CODE> to the local dir <CODE>/tmp/local_folder</CODE>?</P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> Tue, 26 Feb 2019 06:50:41 GMT mike_bronson7 2019-02-26T06:50:41Z